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• This invention relates to soft, rubber-like, flexible polymer mixtures which can easily be processed and moulded thermoplastically without requiring typical rubber processing steps such as vulcanization.
• polymer mixtures which have excellent combinations of properties which are capable of being adjusted to their particular purpose or use are obtained by adding a specific copolymer with a sequence structure (I).
• the said mixtures also have excellent thermoplastic processibility, good solvent resistance and high strength of adherence to other plastics materials.
• the present invention relates to polymer mixtures having high tensile strength and good tear propagation resistance, comprising
• thermoplastic polymer from 0 to 75 parts by weight, preferably from 5 to 70 parts by weight, of a thermoplastic polymer of alkylacrylates, alkylmethacrylates, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene or mixtures thereof
• n 1 to 20, preferably 1 to 10
• n and n denote, independently of one another, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6,
• X the middle member containing both the cyclic carbonate corresponding to formula (II) and/or (III) and the cyclic ester corresponding to formula (IV) in polymerised form, the concentration of the structural units of compounds (II) and/or (III) continuously decreasing in the direction of --B-- and the concentration of the structural units of the compounds (IV) continuously decreasing in the direction of --A-- ("tapered structure"), the proportion of blocks A amounting to from 1 to 45% by weight, preferably from 2.5 to 30% by weight (based on the total quantity of blocks A+B), the proportion of blocks B amounting to 99 to 55% by weight, preferably from 97.5 to 70% by weight (based on the total quantity of blocks A+B) and the proportion of middle members X amounting to from 5 to 95% by weight, preferably from 10 to 80% by weight (based on the total quantity of A+B+X).
• the graft polymers (A) are preferably particulate emulsion polymerisation graft polymers. They consist of a particulate rubber (diene rubber or alkyl acrylate rubber) having a gel content preferably greater than 70% by weight and average particle diameters (d 50 determined by ultracentrifuge measurements according to W. Scholtan et al, Kolloid-Z. u. Z., Polymere 250 (1972), 782-795) of from 0.05 to 2.0 ⁇ m, preferably from 0.1 to 0.8 ⁇ m, (grafting base) and a graft polymerised polymer of alkylacrylate or alkylmethacrylate, e.g.
• methyl methacrylate styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene, styrene substituted in the nucleus, e.g. p-methylstyrene, methacrylonitrile, maleic acid anhydride, N-substituted maleimide, vinyl acetate or mixtures thereof (grafting superstrate).
• the diene rubbers may be polybutadiene, polyisoprene and copolymers of butadiene with up to 35% by weight of comonomers such as styrene, acrylonitrile, methylmethacrylate or C 1 -C 6 -alkylacrylate which are produced by aqueous radical emulsion polymerisation.
• comonomers such as styrene, acrylonitrile, methylmethacrylate or C 1 -C 6 -alkylacrylate which are produced by aqueous radical emulsion polymerisation.
• the acrylate rubbers may be cross-linked, particulate emulsion copolymers substantially of C 1 -C 8 -alkylacrylate, in particular C 2 -C 6 -alkylacrylate, optionally in admixture with up to 15% by weight of comonomers such as styrene, methylmethacrylate, butadiene, vinyl methyl ether or acrylonitrile and optionally up to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional crosslinking comonomer, e.g.
• divinylbenzene glycol-bis-acrylates, bisacrylamides, phosphoric acid triallylester, citric acid triallylester, allylesters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, triallylcyanurate, triallylisocyanurate.
• diene- and alkylacrylate rubbers and rubbers which have a so-called core/sheath structure, e.g. a core of diene rubber and a sheath of acrylate or vice versa. Core/sheath rubbers are preferred.
• Preferred graft superstrates include copolymers of styrene and acrylonitrile, copolymers of ⁇ -methylstyrene and acrylonitrile and methylmethacrylate polymers or copolymers with up to 50% by weight of C 1 -C 6 -alkylacrylates, acrylonitrile or styrene.
• graft polymers A an emulsion of rubber particles is first produced by emulsion polymerisation. At least one vinyl monomer is then radically graft polymerised in known manner in the presence of the rubber emulsion so that at least a proportion of the monomers is graft polymerised on the rubber.
• Thermoplastic polymers (B) are resinous, thermoplastic polymers of styrene, ⁇ -methylstyrene, styrenes substituted in the nucleus such as p-methylstyrene, methyl acrylate, methylmethacrylate, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, maleic acid anhydride, N-substituted maleimide, vinyl acetate or mixtures thereof.
• Styrene/ acrylonitrile copolymers, ⁇ -methylstyrene/acrylonitrile copolymers and methylmethacrylate/acrylonitrile copolymers are preferred.
• thermoplastic polymers (B) are known and may be prepared by radical polymerisation, in particular by emulsion, suspension, solution or bulk polymerisation. They preferably have molecular weights M w of from 20,000 to 200,000 and limiting viscosity numbers [ ⁇ ] of from 20 to 110 ml/g (determined in dimethylformamide at 25° C.).
• n 1 to 20, in particular 1 to 10, and
• n and n denote, independently of one another, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6,
• X the middle member containing both the cyclic carbonate corresponding to formula (II) and/or (III) and the cyclic ester corresponding to formula (IV) in polymerised form, the concentration of the structural units of compounds (Il) and/or (III) continuously decreasing in the direction of --B-- and the concentration of the structural units of compounds (IV) continuously decreasing in the direction of --A-- ("tapered structure").
• the proportion of blocks A in sequential copolymer C amounts to from 1 to 45% by weight, preferably from 2.5 to 30% by weight (based in each case on the total quantity of blocks A+B), the proportion of blocks B amount to from 99 to 55% by weight, preferably from 97.5 to 70% by weight (based in each case on the total quantity of blocks A+B) and the proportion of middle members X amounts to from 5 to 95% by weight, preferably from 10 to 80% by weight (based on the total quantity of A+B+X).
• the average molecular weights of blocks A and B are from 500 to 1,000,000, preferably from 1000 to 500,000 and most preferably from 2000 to 250,000; the average molecular weights of the middle members X are from 300 to 20,000, preferably from 500 to 15,000.
• Preferred cyclic carbonates (II) and (III) include trimethylene glycol carbonate, neopentyl glycol carbonate, 1,4-butanediol carbonate and dimeric carbonates of pentanediol or of hexanediol. Neopentylglycol carbonate is particularly preferred. ⁇ -Caprolactone and pivalolactone are preferred lactones (IV).
• the sequential copolymers (I) may be prepared from the cyclic carbonates (II, III) and lactones (IV) by anionic ring opening solution polymerization.
• a sequential structure of the copolymers is achieved by stepwise addition of the carbonate/lactone mixture to the polymerisation active solution.
• Preferred sequential copolymers (C) are products with molecular weights M w in the range of from 2000 to 500,000, preferably from 5000 to 400,000, obtained according to DE-OS No. 3 700 193.
• the mixtures of (A), (B) and (C) optionally contain conventional additives such as flame-retardants, lubricants, stabilizers, pigments, mould release agents and antistatic agents.
• the polymer mixtures may be prepared by the usual methods, e.g. graft polymer (A) which has been isolated from its emulsion by a conventional coagulation process or a direct drying process (spray drying) and purified may be mixed with thermoplastic polymer B and the sequential copolymer (C) and optionally additives of the type mentioned above by means of known compounding apparatus (kneaders, screws, rollers).
• graft polymer (A) which has been isolated from its emulsion by a conventional coagulation process or a direct drying process (spray drying) and purified may be mixed with thermoplastic polymer B and the sequential copolymer (C) and optionally additives of the type mentioned above by means of known compounding apparatus (kneaders, screws, rollers).
• Moulding compounds obtained from the polymer mixtures according to the invention have many of the properties of conventional rubbers and of thermoplastic elastomers but their exceptional combination of high tensile strength and good tear propagation resistance should be particularly mentioned. These mechanical properties may be varied and the hardness modified by variation of the proportions of (A), (B) and (C) and in particular by the composition of polymer component (C). Compared with known moulding compounds which have elastoplastic properties, the moulding compounds obtained here contain only very small proportions of volatile or migrating impurities. Their good resistance to solvents is also an outstanding quality.
• the moulding compounds are suitable in particular for the production of coatings, sealing compounds, cable sheathing compounds, sheet products, damping or attenuating materials, and rubber articles such as e.g. hoses.
• Graft product obtained by emulsion polymerization of 50% by weight of a styrene/acrylonitrile mixture (ratio by weight 72:28) on 50% by weight of particulate polybutadiene having an average particle diameter (d 50 ) of 0.4 ⁇ m.
• C 1 Sequentially structured copolymer of the type A--X--B wherein A stands for polyneopentylglycol carbonate and B stands for poly- ⁇ -caprolactone.
• A stands for polyneopentylglycol carbonate and B stands for poly- ⁇ -caprolactone.
• X denotes a tapered transition segment of neopentyl glycol carbonate and ⁇ -caprolactone.
• the copolymer was obtained by ring opening anionic copolymerization of neopentylglycol carbonate and ⁇ -caprolactone.
• the ratio by weight of the monomers neopentylglycol carbonate and ⁇ -caprolactone in the copolymer amounts to 10:90 (determined by 1 H-NMR spectroscopy).
• the relative solution viscosity ⁇ rel of the polymer is 2.71 (2% by weight solution in CH 2 Cl 2 at 20° C.)
• compositions and the test data obtained are summarized in Table 1.

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